CaseCircle2013

Durban (South Africa), South Africa

A round object in the sky with an aura of light around it moving very slowly across the sky. The object seemed as if it was in space an

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-29
Where
Durban (South Africa), South Africa
Shape
Circle
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
-29.858, 31.029 · exact
Slug
circle-over-durban-south-africa-2013-4ca8b1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Durban (South Africa), South Africa has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 10 reports from South Africa.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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